[SunRescue] Re: Re: Help!

[Robert Novak]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Paul Sladen wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > You also can't get enough performance out of a 486 any more for anything
> > more than a dial-up connection anyway, particularly if you want to do
> > any serious amount of IP filtering, NAT, etc.  

I guess this depends on the definition of "serious amount." If you're
hitting 20k lines of filtering rules or 2-3k clients, it might be an
issue. If you're hitting this on a home or small office net, you should be
able to afford a "real router" though. Sell one of the 3000 PCs on ebay or
something. :-)

But if you're in a normal soho environment, I'd guess a 486 or 68k or
cypress sparc should be quite enough for routing a megabit or two. 

> a) biggest load on my 486sx25 router is starting up the perl script to
>    update the dynamic DNS
> b) Spoke to Rusty Russell (author of the Linux NAT/Filtering Code) and
>    does speed testing on a 386 with two etherlink3's
> 
> RR: "Do you have GigE"
>     "No"
> RR: "Next question please"

Heh. I know a 486/66 can route a T1 with normal traffic (seen it done)...
handled an ADSL line at about 1mbps with a 386SX/25 with the Linux Router
for a bit as well.  And when did Cisco stop using MC68020 or similar
processors for their 2500 series serial/ethernet routers?

--Rob
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